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Visions | |
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Genre | Anthology drama |
Creative director | Barbara Schultz |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 3 |
No. of episodes | 32 |
Production | |
Executive producer | Barbara Schultz |
Running time | 90–120 minutes |
Production company | KCET |
Original release | |
Network | PBS |
Release | October 21, 1976 – January 26, 1980 |
Visions is a 90-minute American television weekly anthology series that aired from 1976 to 1978. It was produced by KCET in Los Angeles [1] and televised nationally on PBS. It concentrated on the works of mostly new and some prominent writers, including Cormac McCarthy ( The Gardener's Son ), Marsha Norman, Jean Shepherd, Luis Valdez, and Robert M. Young. Each episode was written by a different writer and starred a different cast.
Among its stars were Tyne Daly, Charles Durning, Brad Dourif, Morgan Freeman, Carol Kane, and Judd Hirsch. Its directors included Maya Angelou, Richard Pearce, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Paul Bogart, and Gordon Davidson.
Episodes included The War Widow and El Corrido .
It won one primetime Emmy Award and was nominated for three others.
Episode list and credits adapted from The Arts on Television, 1976–1990: Fifteen Years of Cultural Programming (1991). [2]
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
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1 | 1 | Two Brothers | Burt Brinckerhoff | Conrad Bromberg | October 21, 1976 |
2 | 2 | The War Widow | Paul Bogart | Harvey Perr | October 28, 1976 |
3 | 3 | El Corrido | Kirk Browning | Luis Valdez | November 4, 1976 |
4 | 4 | The Gold Watch | Lloyd Richards | Momoko Iko | November 11, 1976 |
5 | 5 | Liza's Pioneer Diary | Nell Cox | Nell Cox | November 18, 1976 |
6 | 6 | The Great Cherub Knitwear Strike | George Tyne | Ethel Tyne | November 25, 1976 |
7 | 7 | Life Among the Lowly | Adrian Hall | Adrian Hall, Richard Cumming | December 2, 1976 |
8 | 8 | Pennsylvania Lynch | Jeff Bleckner, Rich Bennewitz | Adrian Hall, Richard Cumming | December 9, 1976 |
9 | 9 | Scenes from the Middle Class (two plays): Monkey in the Middle and Winter Tour | Rick Bennewitz | Betty Patrick (Monkey in the Middle), David Trainer (Winter Tour) | December 16, 1976 |
10 | 10 | The Phantom of the Open Hearth | Fred Barzyk, David Loxton | Jean Shepherd | December 23, 1976 |
11 | 11 | The Tapestry and Circles | Maya Angelou | Alexis De Veaux | December 30, 1976 |
12 | 12 | The Gardener's Son | Richard Pearce | Cormac McCarthy | January 6, 1977 |
13 | 13 | Prison Game | Robert Stevens | Susan Yankowitz | January 13, 1977 |
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
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14 | 1 | Iowa | Rick Bennewitz | Murray Mednick | October 2, 1977 |
15 | 2 | Freeman | Lloyd Richards | Phillip Hayes Dean | October 9, 1977 |
16 | 3 | Alambrista! | Robert M. Young | Robert M. Young | October 16, 1977 |
17 | 4 | The Dancing Bear | Burt Brinckerhoff | Conrad Bromberg | October 23, 1977 |
18 | 5 | Over/Under/Sideways/Down | Steve Wax, Eugene Corr | Peter Gessner, Eugene Corr | October 30, 1977 |
19 | 6 | Pleasantville | Ken Locker | Vicki Polon | November 6, 1977 |
20 | 7 | You Can Run But You Can't Hide | Rick Bennewitz | Brother Jonathan Ringkamp | November 13, 1977 |
21 | 8 | All I Could See from Where I Stood | Burt Brinckerhoff | Elizabeth Clark | November 20, 1977 |
22 | 9 | Nanook Taxi | Edward Folger | Jeffrey Hayes | November 27, 1977 |
23 | 10 | Secret Space | Rosalyn Regelson | Rosalyn Regelson, Roberta Hodes | December 4, 1977 |
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
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24 | 1 | Charlie Smith and the Fritter Tree | David Loxton, Fred Barzyk | Charles Johnson | October 9, 1978 |
25 | 2 | Escape | Robert Stevens | Jonathan Reynolds | October 16, 1978 |
26 | 3 | Fans of the Kosko Show | John Desmond | David Epstein | October 23, 1978 |
27 | 4 | Blessings | Arvin Brown | Murray Mednick | October 30, 1978 |
28 | 5 | Blackout | Rick Bennewitz | Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal | November 13, 1978 |
29 | 6 | Ladies in Waiting | Oz Scott, Michael Lindsay-Hogg | Patricia Resnick | January 8, 1979 |
30 | 7 | Shoes and String | Oz Scott | Ted Shines (Shoes), Alice Childress (String) | January 12, 1980 |
31 | 8 | It's the Willingness | Gordon Davidson | Marsha Norman | January 19, 1980 |
32 | 9 | He Wants Her Back | Kaye Braden | Stanton Kaye | January 26, 1980 |
Award | Year | Category | Nominee(s) | Result | Ref. |
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Cannes Film Festival | 1978 | Caméra d'Or | Robert M. Young (for Alambrista! ) | Won | [3] |
Peabody Awards | 1977 | — | Visions | Won | [4] |
Primetime Emmy Awards | 1977 | Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design and Title Sequence | Gene Piotrowsky (for The Gardener's Son ) | Nominated | [5] |
Outstanding Achievement in Lighting Direction | Ken Dettling, Leard Davis (for Gold Watch) | Nominated | [5] | ||
Outstanding Achievement in Video Tape Editing for a Series | Roy Stewart (for The War Widow ) | Won | [6] | ||
1978 | Outstanding Achievement in Lighting Direction | Ken Dettling, Leard Davis (for You Can Run But You Can't Hide) | Nominated | [7] |
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